Visiting Speaker: Performance, Reception, Aesthetics

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Charles Martindale from the University of Bristol

will give a talk on

鈥淧erformance, Reception, Aesthetics - or Why Reception Studies Need Kant鈥�

CHARLES MARTINDALE is the author of Redeeming the Text, on reception theory and the classics, which helped to set the agenda for what has become the fastest growing area of the discipline; he has recently co-edited with Richard Thomas of Harvard University a collection of essays designed to carry the debate forward (Classics and the Uses of Reception). He was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to write a monograph Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste arguing for the importance of beauty and the aesthetic in our response to the arts. Martindale鈥檚 work thus covers Classics, English, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, and Aesthetics; other concerns include translation and translation theory, autobiographical writing and the personal voice, and theories of reading and criticism.

Public invited.